Before and After Music
Proceedings of the 10th International Congress on Musical Signification, Vilnius 2008
ed. by Lina Navickaite-Martinelli
(In English, German, French, and Spanish, see the Contents)
The International Congress on Musical Signification has been the world’s most important venue for musical semioticians since 1986, the year of its first meeting in Imatra, Finland. The fact that, 24 years later, we introduce the proceedings of the 10th congress is testimony to the longevity and significance of this event. The jubilee edition of the congress, ICMS10, took place in Lithuania from the 21st to the 25th of October, 2008, at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius and the Kaunas University of Technology.
The Tenth International Congress on Musical Signification, devoted to the theme “Before and After Music,” has encouraged the discussion and exchange of ideas about both the “archaeology” of music and its after-life. By aiming to transcend recent research on similar themes represented by historical musicology, cultural musicology, and related disciplines, the congress has invoked musical semiotics as a platform for providing a refreshing rethinking of musical worlds and the capacity of music to decode and construct human reality from cultural practices to their theoretical conceptualisations.
This collection contains fifty-five essays based on the papers delivered during the ICMS10. The articles have been grouped into eight thematic sections according to the following categories:
- Ex Cathedra
- Epistemologies, Theories, Paradigms
- Semiotics of Culture and Society
- Multidisciplinary Perspectives
- Philosophies of Performance
- Opera and Drama
- Musical Signification in Cinema
- Twentieth-Century Compositional Practices
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Poetics and Politics of Place in Music
Proceedings from the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference, Vilnius October 17-20 2007
Ed. by Ruta Staneviciute and Lina Navickaite-Martinelli
(In English and German, see the Contents)
In 2007, the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference was organised in Vilnius by the Musicological Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union in association with the International Musicological Society. Devoted to the link between music as creative practice and experience and its social and cultural contexts, the topic of the conference, “Poetics and Politics of Place in Music,” included the following aspects: sense and representation of place in music and politics of cultural identity; embeddedness of music in cultural context and intercultural exchange; local vs. global in musical creativity and its reception; genius loci and conceptualisations of local soundscapes, and others.
The essays contained in this collection of the conference’s proceedings explore how these ideas have been expressed in Europe and in Baltic diasporas in the U.S. from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Twenty contributions from all over Europe (Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Germany, Lithuania) are organised into three sections:
· Music and Cultural Identity: (Re)debating National and Modern
· Space, Place and Individual Expression
· Migration, (De)contextualization and Politics of Representation
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Music, senses, body
Proceedings of the International Congress of Musical Signification 9, Roma 2006
ed. by Dario Martinelli
(In English, French, Italian and Spanish)
From the 19th to the 23th of September 2006, the ninth International Congress on Musical Signification was successfully held at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. It was actively attended by more than 100 scholars from all over the world, 58 of which were published in this volume. The chosen theme for this edition of the congress, “Music Senses Body”, especially encouraged studies on topics such as: musical ‘gesture’; ‘feeling, emotion and meaning’, today; bodily roots of the musical mind; metaphor in music; image and embodied schemata in musical semiosis, composition and analysis; synaesthesia and transductions ‘interartes’; body as musical medium; and many others.
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Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts
Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006
Ed. by Günther Witzany
(In English)
From the 5th to the 9th of July, the sixth Gathering in Biosemiotics was successfully completed in Salzburg, Austria. It has been planed and organized by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Günther Witzany in Cooperation with Alfred Winter of the Government of Salzburg.
The main programm was held at the venues of the St. Virgil Conference Center and covered 7 sections (with a total of 37 talks), all of which are featured in this volume:
· Semantics in Biosemiotics
· Methods of Biosemiotics
· Semiotics in Biosemiotics
· Applied Biosemiotics
· Biosemiotics and Information Theory
· Evolution, Development and Sign-Functions
· Biosemiotics and Mind Models
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